We provide consultation services in the following areas as well as training courses for your staff. Each title is a link to additional information and case studies.

Overall Equipment Effectiveness - OEEThis method of analysing your efficiencies is rapidly becoming the International standard for measuring how well you utilise your production plant.Short Course, but also forms a major part of most consultancies.

Single Minute Exchange of DiesThis section gives some information of Quick Changeovers, reducing the amount of time that a machine sits idle for, and this helps to increase your Overall Equipment Effectiveness, OEE.

Condition Based Maintenance (CBM)Condition Based monitoring, and the more traditional Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a method that reduces the amount of time a machine or system is non-productive due to maintenance issues. Once again, this helps to increase your Overall Equipment Effectiveness, OEE.

Work StandardisationThe information here shows how you can get the most out of your production systems through ensuring that everyone and every machine operates to a standard method through the use of intense analysis and the implementation of Standard Operating Procedures

Problem Solving TechniquesMainly concerned with production issues, this is a simple set of methods that break down any issues into bite sized chunks, allowing for easier analysis.

As it states on Amazon - 'This text is a readable and practical guide to the most important manufacturing philosophy in the last 50 years, Lean Production, so called because its aim is to trim the fat from the system. Essential guidance is included for changes in ISO regulations and requirements. The book takes the reader through the main aspects of the philosophy and clearly states what needs to be done, why and how it can be achieved. The many techniques outlined have a proven track record over many years and are effective and easily understood. Starting with an overview of the main tools required such as information gathering and problem solving techniques, the book goes on to detail the main aspects of Lean Production with a chapter dedicated to each technique.'